cast a slur on

Example Sentences

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Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor.

From Time Magazine Archive

I now mention these things, not to cast a slur on San Martin, but for the opposite purpose of averting undue reproach, though my bitter enemy.

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of

But the decision of the Court cast a slur on his name, and on that of his second wife.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

But for practical needs we see that it suffices to cast a slur on facile popularity, and vindicate over and over again those who had been despised and rejected.

From Albert Durer by Moore, T. Sturge

I wouldn't have done it had he not cast a slur on your fair name, mother.

From The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle by Stratemeyer, Edward